Go large, Mitt By Charles Krauthammer, Published: September 27 In mid-September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the financial system. Barack Obama handled it coolly. John McCain did not. Obama won the presidency. (Given the country’s condition, he would have won anyway. But this sealed it.) Four years later, mid-September 2012, the […]
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WASHINGTON POST Busted: Mr. Pfeiffer and the White House blog By Charles Krauthammer, Published: July 29 Shortly after 9/11, President George W. Bush received from Prime Minister Tony Blair a bust of Winston Churchill as an expression of British-American solidarity. Bush gave it pride of place in the Oval Office. In my Friday column about
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News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Fri, May 11, 2012 Israel is ready to stop Iran By Charles Krauthammer In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a
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THE WASHINGTON POST While Syria burns By Charles Krauthammer, Published: April 26 Last year President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” Moammar Gaddafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing “would have been a betrayal of who we are,” explained the
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Printed from the News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Published Fri, Jan 27, 2012 ‘Fairness’ falls flat for Obama Washington Post Writers Group – Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama’s game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 – purveyor
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The Register-Guard http://www.registerguard.com/ CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Like it or not, human survival rests on politics Published: Friday, Dec 30, 2011 Huge excitement. Two Earth-sized planets found orbiting a sun-like star less than a thousand light-years away. This discovery comes two weeks after the stunning announcement of another planet orbiting another star at precisely the right distance
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The wages of appeasement By Charles Krauthammer, Published: December 15 “Ask Osama bin Laden . . . whether I engage in appeasement.” — Barack Obama, Dec. 8 Fair enough. Barack Obama didn’t appease Osama bin Laden. He killed him. And for ordering the raid and taking the risk, Obama deserves credit. Credit for decisiveness and political courage. However,
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WASHINGTON POST Obama’s campaign for class resentment By Charles Krauthammer, Published: December 8 In the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama averred that if in three years he hadn’t alleviated the nation’s economic pain, he’d be a “one-term proposition.” When three-quarters of Americans think the country is on the “wrong track” and even Bill Clinton
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Sat, Nov 26, 2011 By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON Democrats are unanimous in charging that the debt-reduction supercommittee collapsed because Republicans refused to raise taxes. Apparently, Republicans are in the thrall of one Grover Norquist, the anti-tax campaigner, whom Sen. John Kerry called “the 13th member of this committee without being
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Gone in 60 nanoseconds By Charles Krauthammer, Published: October 6 “We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here,” says the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar. — Joke circulating on the Internet The world as we know it is on the brink of disintegration, on the verge of dissolution. No, I’m not talking about the collapse
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